Squirrels Harvest Season Details and Diet Notes
Bright squirrels bustle across the country during harvest time gathering nuts for winter. They rely mainly on smell to locate hidden stores, as memory of nut caches is unreliable. Tree squirrels eat seeds fruits leaves shoots bark roots nuts and mushrooms while red squirrels favor pinecones. A tree squirrel can harvest up to one hundred cones per hour. Ground squirrels add insects and bird eggs to their diet, and their predators include humans bobcats domestic cats dogs coyotes foxes hawks owls snakes raccoons and weasels.